Election night

What do you think!!!?

The capital of Wales is London.

So you did? That wasn't implicit in your reply.

No, of course I didn't. I'm dead against the Welsh Assembly.

I don't really understand why 5 Live is on the red button, they are obviously doing this really cheaply with a couple of hand held cameras which keep coming into each others' shots.

I notice Sky have got an annoying "AWAITING RESULT" graphic out again this year. The ticker is also now showing the single result they have over and over; they should have turned it onto election mode later.

Almost exactly the same titles as last year for The BBC programme with some strange swooshes thrown in. Stalin to Mr Bean seems to be this year's Ming's Bling

First hour is "Except for viewers in Scotland"ed on BBC1 (New Tricks repeat...)

Switching over to News 24*, looks like the Daily Politics studio. Some quite awful CSO for Jeremy Vine (wtf is meant to be happening on the floor?!). Parents called to ask where they could see it, and complained that the results strap is cut off on their TV when I pointed them to N24*.

*Yes, I know.

Oh my goodness - those graphics, ticker etc are much nicer than the new BBC News ones. The ticker looks a lot better as a bar rather than big chunk at the bottom of the screen. Shame these aren't part of the new look.

my picture quality is quite poor on this!! was fine on Question Time, is also fine when they go to Emily Maitlis, but the studio with Dimbleby et al seems to be producing a bad quality picture?? anyone else??

Looks fine here on N24 (yes, I know). Check N24 or, if you have access, a different region.

Yes indeed - well they do have form with this sort of thing, sometimes it works (Kermode and Mayo's film reviews) and sometimes its just a pointless gimmick (getting people to sing We wish you a Merry Christmas for no apparent reason). But then the station has changed dramatically over the past five years.

Good that they're coming from Millbank though. Wonder how easy Sky find it to encourage guests to go all the way over to Osterley at this time of night..

I've now switched to Radio 4's three hour programme which is unashamedly gimmick free, and, with no disrespect to Richard Bacon, likely to be a bit stronger journalistically.

well - i'm in manchester watching it through Virgin!!

Both BBC1 and News Channel giving me a poor picture (can only describe it as 'not crisp' as if not tuned in properly like if I was upstairs watching my portable TV with a coathanger for an aerial!!!) But it only seems to affect the camera shots from MillBank studio, the graphics are all crisp and all the OBs and Emily etc are crisp!!

clever studio though - where are the cameras pointing at Nick Robinson and Charles Kennedy?? Where are they hiding them?